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staticassertionlast Saturday at 6:15 PM1 replyview on HN

I think you could make a stronger case for the opposite. How does Redhat know which commits to cherry when upstream explicitly won't tell you which are relevant to security?


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invokestaticlast Saturday at 7:49 PM

Because Red Hat pays the salaries of dozens (hundreds?) of kernel maintainers all over different subsystems. So they’re subject matter experts, and know exactly which ones are relevant to Red Hat.

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